Re: .gz in Netscape

2000-02-03 Thread J Horacio MG
> > Hi, All > > > > stupid question: what i have to do in order to > > prevent Netscape from expanding .gz files? > > Simple answer: Don't use Netscape to download .gz files, use >wget instead There's a patch (or script) to make mutt (or any other mailer) or slrn (or any other

Re: Updated pgp for mutt?

2000-02-01 Thread J Horacio MG
> I notice that mutt gives the following for almost all signed messages: > > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Mon Jan 31 16:24:38 2000) --] > > ^GUnsupported packet format - you need a newer version of PGP for this > file. That message is from PGP 2.x, not from Mutt. > I have pgp-us 2.6.3

Re: netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)

2000-01-31 Thread J Horacio MG
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 07:23:04PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > > Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned > > thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. > > Any chance of having this fixed? > > I

netscape 4.5 crashes (altmailer and mutt)

2000-01-30 Thread J Horacio MG
Just compiled altmailer to have mutt as my netscape mailer, and the damned thing (netscape navigator 4.5) crashes everytime I click on a mailto: url. Any chance of having this fixed? Also, the ~/.netscape/preferences.js file cannot be changed with vim as a user, but it worked when I changed it

Re: sgml-tools, LinuxDoc, and customization

2000-01-22 Thread J Horacio MG
> Hello, > I am not sure exactly where to ask this question, but the > README.Debian file for sgml-tools says that version 1 is orphaned > upstream. I take that to mean that I might not get help from the > upstream authors. Not sure, but I think that even the sgmltools2 is orphaned by now.

Graphics tablet & pen + psaux mouse

2000-01-15 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another solution to it. The tablet & pen specifications are: 3-button cordless (cell powered) pen and a tablet with a serial port connection. I got the ps/2 mous

Re: cfdisk table: unusable space??

1999-12-04 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 07:38:02 -0600, Brad dijo: > On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:16:33AM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > > Thanks, but I already knew all that. In fact, /dev/hda2 is empty and is > > not being used at all, so I could use that one. > > Note

Re: cfdisk table: unusable space??

1999-12-04 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 03 de dic de 1999, a las 03:43:39 -0600, Brad dijo: > On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 01:11:05PM +0100, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 *1 1080293+ 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda2

ISO-8859-15: setfont and default font

1999-12-03 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I have defined iso-8859-15 charset in my $HOME/.bash_profile, and it works as such if I set a proper font for it, eg.: # setfont lat9u-16.psf lat9u-16.psf is a font I copied into /usr/share/consolefonts/. I use /etc/kbd/default.map for getting characters specific of iso-8859-15, just bindin

cfdisk table: unusable space??

1999-12-03 Thread J Horacio MG
Looking at the cfsdisk table, I've just seen this (just look at the last line of the table): hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 78.45 hda2Primary Linux ext2 78.45 hda5Logical Linux ext2 1498.25 hda6

Glibc and Kernel, both with crypt?

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
Say I do a "normal" Debian (or any other Linux OS) install with, eg. glibc2.1 and kernel2.10 (or any other glibc and kernel), would these be the complete library and kernel? This question is with regard to both glibc-crypt-2.1.2.tar.gz and patch-int-2.2.10.4.gz, are these included in a "normal"

Re: HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
El mié, 01 de dic de 1999, a las 09:38:42 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: > > this is a reply to an older message. > Question was, how to upgrade to perl5. Here is the answer from the > perl5-base-package: > > coma:/usr/src/packages# dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb > (Reading database ... 53468

Re: Exim error? [FW: Mail delivery failed:]

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
ocally resolved on > your mailserver. > > Bill Suetholz > > > On 01-Dec-99 J Horacio MG wrote: > > I'm having trouble with one user's mail. Anyone sending a mail to her > > address gets an error message like the one below. > > > > This has bee

Re: Why does potato compiling suck?

1999-12-02 Thread J Horacio MG
> Why is it that whenever I try to compile something on potato, there's > always some problem (except kernels, which don't depend on a lot of > external stuff). > > What can I do? I can't even compile the latest KDE 2 snapshots, even when > they have debian build scripts. When I firts upgraded

Exim error? [FW: Mail delivery failed:]

1999-12-01 Thread J Horacio MG
arlotha.usr.ciberia.es [212.87.194.115]) > by mailserver (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5787D4FAE1F > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:53:20 +0100 (CET) > Received: from horacio by h0rus with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) > id 11svDX-00051l-00; Tue, 30

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-30 Thread J Horacio MG
> Bernhard Rieder said: > > "Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any > > idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is > > that breaks it. > > Maybe this applies only to SO 5.1 (from StarDivision) and not to > SO 5.

Re: Potato upgrade [PERL]

1999-11-29 Thread J Horacio MG
> After a long battle with an upgrade to potato from a very customized slink am > allmost happy. I just miss one thing: > I cannot start gdm due to some wierd problem. It complains about the user and > group for /var/gdm. Supposedly they should be nobody:deamon but that doesn't > work either. In S

Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)

1999-11-29 Thread J Horacio MG
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I installed Star Office 5.1 in the /opt directory as root with the > setup option /net. > > Then I ran setup as normal user from the /opt/ > directory and the > setup program installed basic files in my home directory. > That's all, no problems under potato with 2.2.1

HELP: PERL5 upgrade trouble

1999-11-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm sure I sent this message to the list, but it hasn't shown as yet: I tried to install perl5 from potato, but I couldn't (and now all the perl stuff is messed up). First, I tried to `dpkg -i perl-5.005_5.005.03-4.deb', but it requires perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb and conflicts with the

Re: Easy way to migrate a Slackware system to debian?

1999-11-19 Thread J Horacio MG
> Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a running slackware system on a computer which lacks a CD so > > since > > this is a running linux system i figure that it should be possible to > > migrate > > it towards debian is there somewhere a help about this? would it be >

Re: Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
El jue, 18 de nov de 1999, a las 12:35:54 +0100, Klaus Drews dijo: > Hi, > > just a small hint : > somewhere there is a README in the docs, which says, that you have > to load and unload and convert things to work with 5.005. Look for it, > befor upgrading. I crashed my system some time ago becaus

/tmp permissions changed!

1999-11-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, all of a sudden I realized the /tmp permissions had changed to: 2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2048 Nov 19 02:57 tmp/ so, I changed it back to sticky with: # chmod 777 /tmp # chmod a+t /tmp Now, it seems alright, but I'm not sure about the rest (most of all /var). Could anyone che

ISO-8859-15 and Euro currency

1999-11-17 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I compiled the following native language support modules in the kernel (2.2.10): CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y and the rest as modules. Then, in ~/.bash_profile I've got: LANGUAGE=es:en LC_ALL=es_ES LANG=spanish MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 export LANGU

Perl5 (Potato) ... [satan]

1999-11-17 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, just to make sure I'll be doing the right thing to upgrade to Perl5, there's this package: Package: perl Version: 5.004.05-2 Priority: important Section: interpreters Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: perl-5.004, perl-5.004-doc Conflicts: io Provides: io Replaces: io [..

Re: kernel compile and modules

1999-11-15 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 03:58:58 -0800, aphro dijo: > > the only real benefit i can see to compiling sutff as modules is: > > 1) if you think you may need to unload it at some point this is what I actually thought... you can have the kernel compiled with lots of loadable modules just in

kernel compile and modules

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to build a new kernel (2.2.10), and would like to go over the steps for compiling (not make kpkg) as I'm not sure about them: # make config (or menuconfig) here I have a doubt about the options which can be configured as loadable modules instead of compiling into the kernel. Say I

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 05:28:44 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > > There could be a problem with doing it that way, if you are a KDE user. > > I use KDE, so I installed two versions of QT, from source. That all

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 14 de nov de 1999, a las 01:03:58 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Well, as I said, it's not there: > > > > ncftp ...-free/binary-i386/libs > pwd > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debia

Re: QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-14 Thread J Horacio MG
El sáb, 13 de nov de 1999, a las 11:51:25 -, Pollywog dijo: > I don't know if you can get 1.42 but 1.44 is at: > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.44- > 6.1.deb > > If you really need 1.42, I believe it comes on the Slink CD's but I am not > certain

QT1G (>= 1.42-2) MISSING from potato!!!

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, where can I find qt1g (>= 1.42-2)? I've been searching ftp.debian.org and www.debian.org, as well as various mirrors, and this library is missing (should be in non-free/binary-i386/libs/). Where can I get it? Regards, -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condi

Re: apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 09:23:05 -0500, Kevin Heath dijo: > > > I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the > > files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave > > me the following: > >[...] > > upgraded. > > Sorry, but the following package

apt-get, now what?

1999-11-13 Thread J Horacio MG
I just tried to upgrade via apt-get, and while it did download the files, it didn't install them. A first `apt-get install' attempt gave me the following: - Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, qt1g is already the newest version Sorry, giftrans is alre

Re: apt-get

1999-11-12 Thread J Horacio MG
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 04:44:56 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo: > > On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to > > potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for > &g

Re: apt-get (attachment)

1999-11-12 Thread J Horacio MG
apologies, in my previous message I forgot to attach the list of upgrade-to-be packages. -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Spain ~Spanje ~ Spanien Key fingerprin

Re: apt-get

1999-11-12 Thread J Horacio MG
> I've updated slink to potato one month ago or so. In general apt-get did > its job very smothly, only a couple of packages (not more than 10) made > some configuration problems, and due to this sometimes the > dist-upgrade prcess got interupted, and had do be started again (after the > problem wa

mount (automount?) /etc/mtab problem

1999-11-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I had to reinstall all my slink system, and among others I installed two packages which I didn't have in my previous installation: autofs and mount. Now, if I edit /etc/mtab to have a partition mounted on a directory which I created, when I reboot the system, it doesn't mount it (that's /dev/

netscape navigator 4.5

1999-11-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I installed the following packages from slink: navigator-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-45_4.5-1.deb netscape-base-4_5.deb now I try to run netscape from X, but the only netscape executable around is `netscape-remote' ...? all I want is to have the navigator installed (no communicator), wh

Re: Netscape vs M$ IE (Re: Sun goes...)

1999-10-28 Thread J Horacio MG
El jue, 28 de oct de 1999, a las 07:40:49 -0700, aphro dijo: > > yeah, i find it quite common to see new bugs about IE4/5 in bugtraq / > securityfocus .. seems for every 4 to 5 IE security problems there is 1 NS > security problem. Besides, it seems that whenever M$ sends a bug/hole acknowledgeme

glibc2.1 problems

1999-10-28 Thread J Horacio MG
Just recently upgraded glibc2.1 and others. Just now I tried to exit from tty1 and got the following: $ exit logout /sbin/getty: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_origin_patt(, version GLIBC_2.1.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference INI

Netscape vs M$ IE (Re: Sun goes...)

1999-10-28 Thread J Horacio MG
> > > > > > We shouldnt cheat outselves. > > > M$IE is much better than NS and there are plenty of users which will > > > chose it if it only will came available on Linux. > > > Some day gzilla may came the best browser in the world but > > > if M$ make port of IE before this time it can make a l

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-27 Thread J Horacio MG
> John Foster wrote: > > Uh. It was already free, in the dollars and cents manner. They > > really gave back/up nothing. > > I think they give an impression: from now on, StarOffice is supported by > Sun. Yes, it's a world of marketing! Shame! > Unix community at large can take advantage

HELP!! Re: HELP!: problems after POTATO upgrade

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
El dom, 24 de oct de 1999, a las 07:28:49 -0400, Greg Wooledge dijo: > J Horacio MG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so (No such file > > or directory), skipping > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /us

Re: Sun goes fully open source!

1999-10-26 Thread J Horacio MG
> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote: > > > Ben Collins wrote: > > > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap > > > and they > > > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving > > > them > > > anything truly worthwhile in return. > > >

HELP!: problems after potato upgrade

1999-10-24 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, Please, bear with me for a while as it seems I'm in trouble. I recently upgraded the following from potato: apt_0.3.13.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deblibstdc++2.9_2.91.61-1.deb glibc-doc_2.1.2-5.deblocales_2.1.2-5

Help! Gimp 1.1.10 Upgrade (dependencies)

1999-10-23 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm about to upgrade to Gimp 1.1.10 (potato), and don't understand some of the dependencies: Well, the dependencies look fine, unless I want support for gifs, for which I downloaded giflib-bin_3.0-5.2 (and giftrans). But giflib-bin says it depends on: giflib3g (>=3.0-5.2) libungif3g (>=3.0-

Re: Netscape 4.7 vs mozilla for a potato machine ?

1999-10-22 Thread J Horacio MG
> Now NS 4.7 is a different matter. Whether its any good, depends on who > you ask. :-) For some it has problems, including crashing, but for > others it works like a charm. Personally (Communicator 4.7), its never > crashed on me, and seems to be better than previous versions, but YMMV.

Fetchmail: header

1999-10-22 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, What's wrong with this? It's happened to me a few times, fetchmail refuses to download a message alleging the "header line is ridiculously overlong". Is this something I should fix in fetchmail somehow, o should I contact with the owner of the list where this message came from? Version: f

Potato: dpkg errors??

1999-10-18 Thread J Horacio MG
Just yesterday I did the following potato upgrade: apt_0.3.13.deb gconv-modules_2.1.2-5.deb ldso_1.9.11-4.deb libc6-dev_2.1.2-5.deb libc6_2.1.2-5.deb libglib1.2_1.2.5-1.deb libstdc++2.10_2.95.2-0pre2.deb locales_2.1.2-5.deb Today, I upgrade the following from potato: libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.6

man not working?

1999-10-15 Thread J Horacio MG
I can't make the `man' command working: $ man man No existe entrada de manual para man (There is no man entry for man) I recently compiled and installed mutt and gnupg in /usr/local, and tried to compile/install QT as well; it's ever since then that `man' is not working. TIA, -- Horacio

eterm: mutt & slrn

1999-10-15 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to have both mutt and slrn iconized and using eterm. I added the following lines in /GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook: "mutt-e" EXEC Eterm -T "mutt-e" -e /usr/local/bin/mutt "slrn-e" EXEC Eterm -T "slrn-e" -e /usr/bin/slrn but if I change the icon for, say, mutt, it also changes

Sun sparc: no media install? [Re: Sun classic]

1999-10-05 Thread J Horacio MG
> BTW, why would anyone install the Debian on Suns if the machines come > with > Solaris right out the boxes? The only reason I'm asking about Debian on > Sun is that I think it's an interesting alternative since the Classic > where I have an access to doesn't have Solaris on it (the CDs I mean).

start X11 on bootup

1999-09-26 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi there, at some point I disable the X11 from opening at startup (default with slink installation). But I forgot how I did that (and I recall there were various ways of doing so), so now I can't reverse the changes. Among the bootup messages I always get the following one: Checking for valid X

Re: A GnuPG package for stable? [Rendering Security Insecure]

1999-09-23 Thread J Horacio MG
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:03:54 -0500 > From: "Eric Gillespie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bruce Z. Lysik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A GnuPG package for stable? > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C

Re: .bashrc doesn't work?

1999-09-22 Thread J Horacio MG
> Hello all, > > I am having a problem with users .bashrc, roots works fine AFAIK, but all the > user ones do nothing. No matter what I put > in them it doesn't work. For example in my .bashrc I have the line "l='ls > --color=auto -als'" but typing 'l' does > nothing... Also /etc/skel/.aliases a

hda: irq timeout:

1999-09-21 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, this just happened to me while while the daily cron was running, I tried a connection: h0rus:~$ pon provider hda: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } h0rus:~$ and the connection request was resumed, and got back to the prompt. I recall this is just got to do with the system

Re: spreadsheet?

1999-09-16 Thread J Horacio MG
> Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere? I believe Lotus 1·2·3 might be released for Linux, can anyone confirm or deny this point? Regards, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA

fetchmail bug ... or list bug?

1999-09-06 Thread J Horacio MG
I was fearing that either procmail or fetchmail were not delivering all mail every now and then, until now that I saw this message from fetchmail: fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself #*.***.

syslogd kernel stack corruption

1999-09-06 Thread J Horacio MG
Help, please! Just a few secs ago I was reading my mail when mutt broke and all the stuff below appeared. Then it asked me if I wanted to leave mutt (obviously I did, it didn't look nice). Now it seems to be working fine ... well, the problem doesn't look as if it's got to do with mutt, rather

Exim: FW: Mail delivery failed...

1999-08-22 Thread J Horacio MG
is is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from horacio by h0rus with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 11IVrE-8x-00; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:32:16 +0200 Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:32:16 +0200 From: J Horacio MG <[EMAIL P

system and bios time doubt (hwclock)

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, just reviewing a script I was given which I have in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to set the system clock from a server, and then the HARDWARE CLOCK (bios clock?) SET FROM THE SYSTEM'S: -- #!/bin/sh # set the system clock from slug /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es # set the hardware clock from th

Re: compiling error: xauth not found

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
$ dpkg -l | less ii xbase-clients 3.3.2.3a-11miscellaneous X clients may be xauth is somewhere else? Jor-el dijo: > > 'xauth' is indeed present in Debian - you just havent installed > it. It is part of the package xbase-clients on Slink. > > On Sat,

compiling error: xauth not found

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to compile ssh1 and found the following error while running ./configure. I su'ed root and copied the tarball to /usr/local: $ su ... /usr/local/ssh-1.2.27# ./configure ... checking for xauth... no configure: error: configuring with X but xauth not found - aborting Since there's no xau

Re: restricted shell

1999-08-21 Thread J Horacio MG
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 12:03:52PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know of the existance of a restricted shell, though I'm not sure > > > whether this is what I'm

restricted shell

1999-08-20 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I know of the existance of a restricted shell, though I'm not sure whether this is what I'm after. In time, I'll be moving away to another country, and I intend to leave my home computer with the current users configured, ie. root (of course), my sister, and I. I'd also like to create a "gue

Problems encrypting with GnuPG and decrypting with PGP

1999-07-27 Thread J Horacio MG
> Why does the following not work? If I don't get any reply from > debian-user, I will post to debian-devel, as I am reasonably certain I > got these packages from potato. I reported a bug a while ago about gpg-rsa2 and gpg-idea2, and the answer was: You need libc6 2.1.x - or you can grab the so

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-23 Thread J Horacio MG
> > > Anyway, the problem is that Netscape is quite frequently crashing with > > > a "bus error." This usually happens when I close a Netscape window > > > (actually, it happens close to half the time when I close a Netscape > > > window), which is painful because I have to either live with an

Re: Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
Fine, I see you both (and others in various posts) advice on using adduser instead of useradd ... ??? But adduser is for adding an "existing" user to a group ... !!! or is it? Uh, well, I'll try it, but I guess I'll have to userdel before and make sure it deletes all traces of the newly created

Trouble with new user

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
In an attempt to create a new user, with useradd command, the new user's home directory was created, and so was the line in /etc/passwd: usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash But if I try to log in as such user: login: usermaria Password: xxx Login incorrect What may I have done w

fsck: Duplicate blocks error

1999-07-19 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I just had this filesystem check error while booting: Duplicate blocks found ... invoking duplicate block passes ... File /lib/libungif.so.3.0.0 (inode #12302, mod time Wed Jul 8 02:36:34 1998) has 2 duplicate block(s), shared with 2 file(s): /bin/skill (inode #8284, mod time Fri O

Re: [slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
> slrn --spool I already tried that with the following configuration: --- ~/.slrnrc --- set spool_inn_root "~/News/slrnpull" set spool_root "~/News/slrnpull/news" set spool_nov_root "~/News/slrnpull/news" set read_active 1 set use_slrnpull 1 set server_object "spool" set spool_a

[slrn] please, help whith slrnpull

1999-07-16 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I installed slrn and slrnpull. For a short while I tried "plain" slrn, but what I really need is to be able to download the news to read, reply, compose, etc. off line. So, I set up the slrnpull.conf like follows: - /etc/news/slrnpull.conf - default 0 0 group.news.one * * gr

JDK and HotJava

1999-07-10 Thread J Horacio MG
I installed the JDK (jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz) from http://www.blackdown.org/ like follows: # cd /opt # tar zxvf /tmp/jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86.tar.gz and added the following lines to my ~/.bash_profile: export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk116_v5 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_

Re: mutt & pgp

1999-07-02 Thread J Horacio MG
Have a try to the key ^P (+p) Regards, -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA

FW: Cron run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly

1999-07-01 Thread J Horacio MG
Cron sent me this error, what does it mean? ... all I can think of is that the machine has spent a few days being switched off before cron started running, so that may have caused havoc since in /etc/cron.monthly/acct there's the line: echo "Login accounting for the month ended `date`:" > /var/log

Re: V. basic script question

1999-06-21 Thread J Horacio MG
~> > I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in ~> > /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I ~> > make a connection, and then sent locally: ~> > ~> > - start script - ~> > #!/bin/sh ~> > ~> > /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a460

Re: Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-21 Thread J Horacio MG
~> I think you need to archive your postings and their replies a ~> bit more efficiently. I was about to cut and paste a previous ~> reply on the subject when I noticed that the question was posed ~> by you! I can assure you they are efficiently enough archived. I asked why Alt+ArrowUp would shut

Alt+ArrowUp (inittab kbrequest)

1999-06-20 Thread J Horacio MG
I have already pressed by mistake the Alt+ArrowUp key combo, resulting in a system shutdown (losing all work done!). In my /etc/inittab I've got the Ctrl+Alt+End key combo configured for shutdowns: kb:12345:kbrequest:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -h now and some kbrequest for the Alt+ArrowUp which reads

V. basic script question

1999-06-20 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm on a dial on demand connection and I have this script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ for having the mail fetched from my ISP everytime I make a connection, and then sent locally: - start script - #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q - end sc

Re: FW: HD Partition

1999-06-11 Thread J Horacio MG
Brad dixit: ~> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~> ~> > Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, ~> ~> Did you mean 'du -s' instead of 'df'? df will only tell you how much the ~> entire partition

FW: HD Partition

1999-06-10 Thread J Horacio MG
Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation, and that will give you an idea of the percentage space you need for each one. For directories which include others, like "/", you can do `df' and substract the rest. The dir "/root" should remain in "/", no need to make a sep

Re: SGML HELP!!!!! PLEASE?????

1999-06-09 Thread J Horacio MG
Thanks Egon, but: Egon Schmid dixit: ~> ~> Anything you should know is here: ~> ~> www.oasis-open.org Been there, seen that, still confused (well, at least I subscribed to the sgml-tools list). ~> > h0rus:/tmp$ sgml2html debiandoc-sgml.sgml ~> > Processing file debiandoc-sgml.sgml ~> > p

SGML HELP!!!!! PLEASE?????

1999-06-09 Thread J Horacio MG
My apologies, I know I shouldn't try to call the attention with caps etc., but I've tried this question a couple of times and seem to get no response so far: {I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is th

SGML Help

1999-06-08 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, I'm writing some docs on SGML, but I'm having some trouble when converting them with sgml-tools, and I too am a bit confused with it, is there any mailing list on the subject (ie. SGML)? Also, what's the difference between Debiandoc-SGML, Linuxdoc-SGML and Docbook? TIA -- Horacio [EMAIL PRO

Re: CTRL+ALT+DELETE

1999-06-05 Thread J Horacio MG
> Where and how can I modify which file so that every time I use the force > reboot key-combo, it actually send out the command "shutdown -r now"? /etc/inittab: # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now Regards -- Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valen

Re: Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-02 Thread J Horacio MG
~> install libgtk1.1.2-dev ~> ~> The package you have is for runtime only, this is the package if you ~> want to compile something. Thanks Martin, it's the first time ever I try to compile anything (apart from the kernel). Now the `configure' script works ok, but `make' gives me this error: -I/

Missing gtk-config for building GnomePGP

1999-06-01 Thread J Horacio MG
I'm trying to build GnomePGP-0.3 in Slink. I run the ./configure script and get: checking for gtk-config... no checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.1... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or s

Help with SGML errors

1999-05-31 Thread J Horacio MG
First off, my apologies for the long output. If this is not the right place to ask this question, could you point me to the right list? I'm writing a SGML document and I'm getting some errors when converting to HTML, LATEX, LYX,... (same errors with all of them): /usr/bin/nsgmls:0:6:10:E: no sta

Problem with mail delivery (Exim+Fetchmail)

1999-05-29 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi, With Exim as the MTA and Fetchmail as the POP agent, I'm having the following problem: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id seems to download correctly all mail stored in my ISP, but I always get to read (with Mutt) all messages EXCEPT FOR one. Since fetchmail downloads a number "x" of mail messages,

Re: Solaris 7 and Debian

1999-05-27 Thread J Horacio MG
~> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 07:32:46PM +0100, richard newton wrote: ~> > Does anyone know if it's possible to dual boot Solaris 7 and Debian GNU/Linux? ~> > Any tips or suggestions would be helpful. ~> ~> I do it using the NT boot manager. I too have nt, solaris and debian, but can't boot solaris

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-19 Thread J Horacio MG
~> From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~> ~> Leaving it up to the install disk to secure the root partition is ~> impractical. That's like trusting the user with a [Yn] response on "Was ~> the password you entered correct?". The only way to secure a filesystem ~> from this type of access is to u

Groups: Howto and New?

1999-05-18 Thread J Horacio MG
I have a directory within /home (ok, probably not the right place for it) which I use to store several documents and other stuff; I'd like to be able to read and write to it just from my user and from root, so I thought of making a new group and changing that directory and files group permissions

Re: running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
John Hasler dixit: ~> J Horacio MG writes: ~> > - start script - ~> > #/bin/sh ~> ~> > fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 ~> ~> > runq ~> > - end script - ~> ~> That first line should read #!/bin/sh . Sorry for

running scripts (manual and auto)

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it execu

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-16 Thread J Horacio MG
~> This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~> /hda1 40MB ~> swap hda2 8MB ~> /usr hda3 68MB ~> swap hdb1 8MB ~> /usr hdb2 250MB ~> ~> where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~> Will the above configuration work

Where is libXpm.so.4?

1999-05-14 Thread J Horacio MG
I need that library for running WP8, but I haven't been able to find it in Slink. Where could I find it or what provides it, please? TIA Horacio

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-13 Thread J Horacio MG
Hi Alexander, excuse me for going over this again, but I fear something is going awfully wrong. Alexander Schwartz dixit: ~> On Wed, 12 May 1999, J Horacio MG wrote: ~> ~> > ~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~> > ~> need to s

Re: kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-12 Thread J Horacio MG
~> I also install the kernel using a small shellprogram provided (you will ~> need to switch that to executable using chmod +x) ~> ~> The last thing I do is that I run lilo. ~> ~> make bzImage ~> make modules ~> # rm -rf /lib/modules/2.2.5 # Only if you are very sure about this! I wondered whet

Re: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-12 Thread J Horacio MG
~> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: ~> ~> : On 10-May-99 J Horacio MG wrote: ~> :> I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~> :> expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~> :> any problems if I i

kernel and modules compiling

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
I just recompiled kernel 2.0.36, and everything seems to work fine except for the following messages during boot up (same with modprobe). pon seems to be working ok so, what does all this mean? :~# modprobe ppp.o /lib/modules/2.0.36/net/ppp.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R88a5d1d7 /lib/modules/2.0.

RE: libc6-2.1.1 ... safe to install?

1999-05-11 Thread J Horacio MG
~> > I have some packages which require version 2.1.1 from libc6 (which I ~> > expect it can be found in potato). My question is, do I have to expect ~> > any problems if I install it in slink, or is it just as straight forward ~> > as upgrading any other package? ~> ~> If you upgrade a slink ins

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